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It is not enough to say we were born to be Republicans, it's more precise to say Republicanism is part of our DNA.

Dolours Price

Dna, Republican, Enough

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Whatseems to take place outside ideology (to be precise, in the street), in reality takes place in ideology. What really takes place in ideology seems therefore to take place outside it. That is why those who are in ideology believe themselves by definition outside ideology: one of the effects of ideology is the practical denegation of the ideological character of ideology by ideology: ideology never says, 'I am ideological.'

Louis Althusser

Believe, Character, Reality

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Innate sensuousness rarely has any desire for accuracy, no desire for precise information. It basks in sunshine, bathes in color, dwells in a sense of the impressive and the gorgeous, and rests there. Accuracy is not necessary except in the case of aggressive, acquisitive natures, when it manifests itself in a desire to seize. True controlling sensuousness cannot be manifested in the most active dispositions, nor again in the most accurate.

Theodore Dreiser

Sunshine, Color, Desire

Theodore Dreiser (2015). “The Financier”, p.95, Booklassic

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I was the first woman to paint cleanly, and that was the basis of my success. From a hundred pictures, mine will always stand out. And so the galleries began to hang my work in their best rooms, always in the middle, because my painting was attractive. It was precise. It was 'finished'.

Tamara de Lempicka

Rooms, Firsts, Painting

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The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognisable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called in question.

Gustave Le Bon

Nihilism, Belief, Moments

"The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind".

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That's what this thing called Christian life is all about, isn't it. Going . . . yet not knowing. As followers of our Lord we believe He leads us in a certain direction . . . or in pursuit of a precise goal.

Charles R. Swindoll

Christian, Believe, Knowing

Charles R. Swindoll (1992). “Second Wind: Fresh Hope for the Road Ahead”, Zondervan

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It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.

A. N. Wilson

Thinking, Opposites, History

A. N. Wilson (2015). “After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World”, p.194, Macmillan

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God is a meticulous clockmaker. So precise is His order that everything on earth happens in its own time. Neither a minute late nor a minute early. And for everyone without exception, the clock works accurately. For each there is a time to love and a time to die.

Elif Safak

Order, Earth, Clock

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The flow of people in a setting, their changing relationships to each other and their environment, and their constantly changing expressions and movements - all combine to create dynamic situations that provide the photographer with limitless choices of when to push the button. By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal.

Constantine Manos

Real, Expression, People

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Sometimes, you just have to reassure the ones you love in precise language that you'll always be there. Sometimes words are enough.

Cassia Leo

Language, Sometimes, Enough

Cassia Leo (2014). “Black Box”, p.220, Gloss Publishing

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That I should turn up at the precise moment was one of those extraordinarily lucky breaks which we all need at some time or other during this life, but don't always get.

Peter Cushing

Lucky, Needs, Moments

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Much of Hamlet is about the precise kind of slippage the mourner experiences: the difference between being and seeming, the uncertainty about how the inner translates into the outer, the sense that one is expected to perform grief palatably. (If you don’t seem sad, people worry; but if you are grief-stricken, people flinch away from your pain.)

Meghan O'Rourke

Pain, Grief, Differences

Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.80, Penguin

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When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.

Charlie Parker

Beautiful, People, Firsts

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Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms.

Alfred Adler

Unique, Expression, Language

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There are some filmmakers like the Coen brothers that are very precise. They make shooting boards, they do it shot by shot, and they follow every single line in their own script. They make amazing movies, and I admire them so much, but I can't do that. I have no idea how the movie will exactly be. While shooting, I just try to create an accident that I don't control very well - grabbing things from different sources and ideas, and then having a sensation somewhere that it will make sense.

Pablo Larrain

Brother, Ideas, Exactly Is

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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(The terms douloi, banausoi and aristoi) are in a way more precise, but what is more vital and valuable, they are more comprehensive: they project a concept of psychic order that embraces entire fields that we have no other way of seeing all together as the working of a single principle. If we think of the human domain as the collaboration and the conflict of these three diverse character-types, we can understand the weave and the stress and polemics of their very different basal teleologies or ultimate governing purposes of life.

Kenny Smith

Philosophy, Stress, Character

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A work of art is something produced by a person, but is not that person — it is of her, but is not her. It’s a reach, really — the artist is trying to inhabit, temporarily, a more compact, distilled, efficient, wittier, more true-seeing, precise version of herself — one that she can’t replicate in so-called ‘real’ life, no matter how hard she tries. That’s why she writes: to try and briefly be more than she truly is.

George Saunders

Art, Real, Writing

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Radio astronomers study radio waves from space using sensitive antennas and receivers, which give them precise information about what an astronomical object is and where it is in our night sky. And just like the signals that we send and receive here on Earth, we can convert these transmissions into sound using simple analog techniques.

Honor Harger

Simple, Night, Space

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I try to make what I have written tighter, stronger and more precise, eliminating every element that's not doing useful work. Then I go over it once more, reading it aloud, and am always amazed at how much clutter can still be cut.

William Zinsser

Reading, Cutting, Trying

William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.11, Harper Collins

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ART is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours.

Maria Callas

Art, Thinking, Voice

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Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can it procure to its agents the marvellous faculty of having precise ideas of a god composed of so many contradictory qualities?

Baron d'Holbach

Men, Ideas, Giving

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Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is as bad as no definition at all.

Muhammad Yunus

Water, Needs, Definitions

Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty”, p.32, PublicAffairs

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Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.

Raymond Queneau

Character, Historical, Important

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The precise location of heaven on earth has never been established but it may very well be right here

Herb Caen

Heaven, Earth, May

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When a baby first looks at you...when it laughs that deep, unselfconscious gurgle; or when it cries and you pick it up and it clings sobbing to you...then you are-happy is not the precise word-filled.

Marilyn French

Baby, Motherhood, Laughing

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